Palestine: Ground Zero of a Liberated World

The editorial board here at Spectre invites you to join us on Wednesday May 22nd at 1pm for an exciting panel discussion as we launch our ninth issue, a special issue entirely dedicated to Palestine.

Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has provoked an unprecedented outpouring of global solidarity with Palestine. The Palestinian struggle for liberation has become the epicenter of radicalization on college and university campuses and beyond. More and more people are breaking with presumptive Zionism and rising in solidarity with the Palestinian cause by fighting against the genocide. Organizations from across the political left have joined the fight, emphasizing that Palestinian liberation is a feminist, queer, Black, and labor issue.

Join us for this panel to discuss Spectre’s new special issue on Palestine and the politics of solidarity and resistance. Please register here with Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. The event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.

Speakers include:

Shireen Akram-Boshar is a graduate student at the University of Houston, a member of the editorial board of Spectre, a member of the Tempest Collective, and a contributor to Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Haymarket Books, 2020).

Abdel Razzaq Takriti is an Associate Professor of History and the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University. He is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965–1976 (Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-author (with Karma Nabulsi) of the digital humanities project The Palestinian Revolution (University of Oxford, 2016).

Zachary Levenson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida International University and a Senior Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (Oxford University Press, 2022) and coeditor of The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism, out next month on Routledge. He is a member of the editorial board of Spectre.

Eman Abdelhadi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Comparative Development at the University of Chicago, where she researches gender, religion and migration. She is coauthor of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072, a sci-fi novel published in 2022 with Common Notions Press. She is based in Chicago, where she is also a community organizer with the Salon Kawakib Collective, Faculty for Justice in Palestine, and other formations.

Sai Englert is a lecturer in political economy of the Middle East at Leiden University. He is the author of Settler Colonialism: an Introduction. He is a member of the editorial boards of both Historical Materialism and Notes from Below.

This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and Spectre. While all of our events are freely available, we ask those who are able to make a solidarity donation and become monthly supporters of our publishing and programming work.